Two issues that finish multi-part stories, one of them for good. Both on the stands today.
Whad’ja think?
PAD
71 comments on “WHAD’JA THINK? CAPTAIN MARVEL #6, YOUNG JUSTICE #55”
Loved them both. I’m gonna miss Young Justice, so thanks for the memories!
oh well at least i got 1 more months of supergirl and hopefully more than that of captain marvel!
-erick
Haven’t had the time to read Cap.Marvel yet… but the first thing i did when i got home was reading YJ.
Great Joooooorb again, Peter.
I hate to see this book go. Specially since i have this very weird feeling that Teen Titans will die really quick. Which means that a great book was cancelled for NOTHING.
Can’t wait to read Spyboy 13.1 and if you are still planned for it, TMNT!
I got Young Justice #55 in the mail today. I thought it was great. Everything Robin said really captured the essence of the series. This was my favorite comic book series. I’ve been reading this series since issue #1. I’m going to miss it, even if the characters are just being shifted into a new series.
A really sweet ending to YJ. Many pleasant surprises. Nice jab at crossovers again with the Millenium Chicken. 🙂
As for CAPTAIN MARVEL, I sure wasn’t expecting THAT kind of ending! Looks like the end of the universe still didn’t fix Marv’s “dámņëd if I do or don’t” dilemmas… 🙂
KET
YJ was another great issue…I’m so sorry to see this book go. You and Todd and the rest did such great work month in, month out. Ugh, I’m so upset the book’s been cancelled. Oh well, though…nothing more to do about that. But I really did love the book, and I really will miss it.
YJ: Darn-nation. I was angry that the book was being cancelled before, but after an amazing issue like this, I’m furious. I’m very glad that Slo-Bo lives on (sorta), and that Greta has a happy ending (for now), but dad-blast-it, I want more! I want to see where Cissie goes from here, now that her Mom doesn’t want her to be Arrowette. I want to see Anita raise her parents. I want to see what happens to these guys next, and I’m not gonna. In fact, I fear very much that the characters who aren’t moving on to Titans will get written out with a bullet in the Graduation Day mini.
Anyway, loved it, loved it, loved it. Loved Slo-Bo’s talk with Anita, loved Darkseid not jobbing for once, loved Robin, or rather Tim, saving Greta with love, loved the final cameo by YJ 1M. (But where were Wonder Girl, Arrowette, Secret, and Empress One Million?)
CM: Not the ending I expected, but a good ending nonetheless. Having the battle with Eternity take place off-panel was a risk, but it worked. The “Big Bang” bit was a nice touch, as was history repeating itself (poor Rick). Looking forward to next ish very much. Wish I could say the same about YJ.
Although I came into Young Justice late, I’ve read the entire series many times. This was such a great mag, and a really great last episode for them. I’m so happy for Greta, but I can only think, poor Slobo. If he thought the original three were bad. . .
Peter, unfortunately I didn’t really like Captain Marvel #6. That was a great surprise to me because I’ve loved the series otherwise. It seemed a little rushed to me and also I couldn’t escape the feeling that the story started in the middle. At the end of last issue Genis had agreed to help Entropy destory Eternity. Then the very first panel of this issue we find out they did it. I know that part of the story wasn’t of great importance to the overall message, but it still left me with a nagging feeling that I couldn’t ignore. Sorry.
Remember, you asked… I collected comics from the mid 70s till around 91. Oh I picked up an issue here or there but basically I stopped reading them for about 9 years. I bought Captain Marvel as a part of my micronauts collecting. Peter, just let me say that I completely loved the previous version of Captain Marvel. It was a fun book, well written, well drawn book that didn’t take itself dead serious. Free of the lame gimmicks that drove me away from the hobby. Your Captain Marvel got me into the comic shop again and I started buying again. Now I pay like 25 books a month and Captain Marvel was the first book I read. (Thats been replaced by Powers but thats neither here or there.) Well, I’ve made it no secret that I haven’t been happy with this volume. However I stuck with it. Hoping for some improvement. I can see with issue six that this is a lost cause. God the book sucked. In the past six issues, there was exactly one page I enjoyed (the one where Rick Jones talked about what they had to eat in the cave) The rest was an exercise in self abuse. Issue six, well, was the worse. About a year ago, my Dad passed away and I spent many hours talking to my near suicidal mother to keep her grounded. THAT was more enjoyable than issue six. It suck life away from me to read it, and the end just hammered it home. Made the last six null and void. If your goal was to punish the fans of your previous work, congrads, you suceeded beyond your wildest dreams.
Still utterly depressed about this being the final issue of YJ. I’m going to miss the whole YJ gang, but most of all your portrayal of Tim as Robin. You always had that dead on… Tim’s dialogue with Greta at the end was a perfect example. One character that I find myself missing already is Slo-bo. I’m impressed with the depth you gave him throughout his existence.
I’ve already mentioned this to you before, but you’ve successfully lured me into Captain Marvel. Issue six is fantastic. I’m half-expecting Rick to go insane from dealing with Marv going re-insane. I also REALLY love the fact that while this six-issue story arc lasted months and months chronologically, we end up right back where we started. Nifty, I say!
Captain Marvel….I continue to be happily amazed at where this book continues to move. I still love the work of volume 3 for what it is, but this direction has it’s own wonderfully entertaining and engaging parallels.
YJ….that just blows. No more. 🙁
Sorry, I’m another naysayer on CM #6 — and I posted my love for one
through five.
I realize you were in a bind, Mr. David. You had to have a tie-off point in #6 in case the plug got pulled then. But….
CM #6 started by throwing out ALL the groundwork laid by the prior issues. How was Rick going to get out of the Microverse to confront Genis? How was he going to stop Genis? Was Eiphany friend or foe?
I was looking forward to those answers the way I looked forward to “Judas Contract” in the Titans, to “The Great Darkness Saga” in Legion, to each chapter of Spidey vs. Morlun when JMS took over Amazing Spider-Man.
I’ll stick with CM a while. I suspect you’ve got a plan to start the avalanche rolling again.
But this issue…didn’t satisfy.
CM #6 was really pretty enjoyable. The beginning did kind of leave me with a “wait, did I miss the last issue?” feeling, but I think the real conflict wasn’t the phenominal cosmic conflict, but the “what next?” aftermath, which was handled very well. I’m glad there’ll be an issue #7, because if this had been the last issue, it would have been frustrating…
speaking of last issues, YJ was a lot of fun as well, although I found myself heaving great sighs as I was reading it, wondering (much like I did with the last issue of Hulk) just how great the rest of the series would have been had it not been cut of just so. More Cass and Kon, more Robin/Secret, more Anita and her parents, more Cissie and her mom, more everything. I felt like we could have had several more issues even after Greta went over to the “Doug Side,” but such is life…
Thanks for the books, Peter…
I thought CM #6 was just awful. I’ve loved the series since it started, but this issue just sucked. It reminded me why I stay away from cosmic books – an ending where characters stand around talking, and every horrible world destroying action is undone in one pannel.
Come on you guys!!!
PAD has been doing this with the last three or four issues. He’s allowing (at least this is my take on it) for a month of comic time to take place in between issues. So we don’t see the battle against Infinity, just like we didn’t see Rick’s Rock star moments and we didn’t see much of Marv as Kree Soldier.
This issue was great.
The last half of the ish, I was sitting there going, “Well this seems kinda like a cop out. I mean, Marv is just going to come back and all is forgiven? All that stuff never happened because Infinity remakes the universe and Marv is back to …oh…hehe… *turns to last page*
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA”
I swear Peter. I was in Panda Express and The nice Chinese lady that gives me extra Orange Chicken was looking at me funny because I was laughing out loud.
You had me, man. Nice work on that.
Best,
Sean
Haven’t read either yet, but I seriously still want to kick whoever cancelled YJ in the butt!
PAD,thanks for the great book. I’ll tell Todd when I get to meet him in 2 weeks(yay!).
Col
CM6: I think the folks who didn’t like the first half of the book are complaining that when Entropy takes over the Universe it’ll suck because there won’t be enough ACTION. 🙂 I got a real kick out of everything from that point on – but what the hëll is Rick gonna do NOW?
I haven’t read the Young Justice series in a while, but still keep up with Captain Marvel. I found CM #6 to be somewhat of a let down I guess. Grade: C. Ah well, I do look forward to future issues though (and hopefully w/ Marlo returning and more Rick and less Marv!).
ps – Also, the coloring on the book is really starting to annoy me!
The thing that nay-sayers about CM #6 don’t get is exactly what I thought some wouldn’t: What the story arc was about.
I spelled it out right in the first two issues. The first issue Rick says, “Now you can’t really argue with vague comments and belief in an “Uber-father-knows-best” philosophy.” In issue 2, he says, “Y’know, I read somewhere that most of American fiction has, as its main theme, a son or daughter seeking the approval of his or her father or father figure.”
The theme was reiterated in every issue: Fathers and sons. A big punch out struggle-for-the-universe issue, believe it or not, simply wouldn’t have been interesting. It’s the exact kind of cosmic BS that puts most people to sleep…and is also EXACTLY what everyone was expecting, which is why I didn’t do it. You’ve seen it a million times. Why make it a million and one?
The *theme* wasn’t about destroying the universe. It was about the struggle for power between child and adult, the eventual breaking away from the adult by the child, but–invariably–the tendency to wind up being either just like our parents, or more like them than we’d care to admit.
The important thing wasn’t that Entropy destroyed the universe, i.e., his father. It’s that he wound up *becoming exactly what his father was.* *That* was what the climax of the story was. I didn’t need to show the universe being destroyed or all the mechanics of it involved. So I didn’t show it.
PAD
I actually enjoyed the fact that the big cosmic battle didn’t take place on-page. But the issue did feel a little rushed. Also, where’s Cris Cross??
I loved YJ, though. I’m so bummed it’s been cancelled. BAH.
I agree with the naysayers. The tragedy is that it couldn’t hold a candle to the greatness of #1-5. I even had reservations about the art, but that was the only surprisingly good thing about it. The move to skip a month forward was a very poor one. People complain about comics being inaccessible to new readers, but this was practically inaccessible to current ones because there was hardly a bridge from issue #5! I mean, this is what I hate about Mark Millar comics, that the characters all talk about action, but you don’t see it. His characters are all like “Did you see Wolverine hit Cyclops? That was so cool,” but what we actually see are talking heads. Same thing here. It’s a bad move.
And there was no resolution. Everything was destroyed, everything was fixed, and then we get forced deja vu. It felt like “oh, it was all a dream”, Genis gets another chance to use his omniscence. Except he screws it up again, and this time, instead of getting a Christmas Carol-type ending, it just feels like “ok, he went insane before, he’s going insane again. We’ve seen this.” It felt rehashed.
Sorry PAD, I’ll checked out #7, but don’t let us down like this again
I haven’t read CM yet, but I think the last issue of YJ was a great farewell. As others said, Robin pretty much summed up the series in his effort to save Secret (so nice that she got to be a real girl). I think when it comes to the home YJ characters like Cissie, Anita, Secret & Slobo, I’ll miss them, but I’d be comfortable to never see them again. At this point, it’s like the end of a TV series. I can think about where their lives will take them, even though no one will tell the story. I’d prefer that to one of them being a human sacrifice in an Outsiders storyline or something.
I especially liked the moment w/ Impulse and Ray.
I don’t generally read Captain Marvel so it slipped beneath my radar, but Young Justice is a constant favorite. I’m sad to see it go but at least there was a sense of resolution within the team.
I get my stuff from Westfield, and I just got the shipment with the previous two weeks’ worth of stuff yesterday, which means two weeks more before I can comment. But if either of these is half as good as the copy of Supergirl #79 that was in that shipment, I’ll be dámņëd happy. What an amazing issue.
I liked but didn’t love CM 6. I was a bit surprised that the end of everything occured offscreen, but I get that – it’s a been there, done that kind of thing. I liked the strange conversation at the end of everything. But then we we get a Big Bang – OW! – and suddenly everything is as it was. Shouldn’t we have started over from scratch?
And then we get the confusing ending. Does this mean that the stuff with the Kree and with Punisher didn’t happen? Or was all of that just in Genis’ head.
So after five great issues, we get one that is a bit off, and leaves me confused. Still, I loved your take on Thor and cannot wait to see how he copes with Genis the Mad Half-Titan. (Hey, is Thanos in the wings somewhere?)
Matthew asked: “Also, where’s Cris Cross??”
He’s moved on. Rumor has it that he’ll soon be the new regular penciller on JLA.
KET
CM #6 was a bit heady for me, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. If it were the last issue, I’d say it was the šhìŧŧëšŧ, crappest ending to a series I’ve ever read, but because it doesn’t end there, it’s a great cliffhanger. Not much of a distinction, but that ending (hëll, the entire issue, really) doesn’t offer much suggestion that something horrible will happen if Rick fails to quell Marv. I mean, the universe was already destroyed, and the consequences of that proved to be rather short-lived. What’s the worst that could happen if it was destroyed again? It leaves a lot of questions that I would be unhappy were they not to be answered, but I’ll take it as a cliffhanger. I’m practiced at waiting a month for the answer to the big question.
As for YJ… *sigh*… I loved this series so much. When I bought the last issue, my sister actually asked me, “Are you all right?” I responded with, “I’m as not-all right as one can be about the cancellation of a comic book.” I (and she) then realized just how not-all right one can be about the cancellation of a comic book, and amended it with, “I’m as not-all right as I was when Sci-Fi Channel canned I-Man.” This seemed to satisfy her. Now that I’m alone, I weep.
Well, not really. But this is crap. I’ve been saying as much over on the DCMBs.
The issue itself? It was a good solid ending. If the Titans fails (and for the first time in my life, I hope a series fails — there’s something inherently wrong about Tim Drake as a Titan), I really want to see you and (if at all possible) TAN take up the reigns again and just come right back at us with YJ #56.
Meanwhile, I intend to pick up TMNT to see what you do with it. I love the concept, but I hope your version resembles more closely the Archie version than any other (I can’t find the dámņ things anywhere, since it was labelled a “Kiddie” book! If anyone knows where I can find issues of it, e-mail me!).
I thought CM # 6 was fantastic, but then I do have a thing for circular stories. Well circular stories that ‘acidentaly’ end as they begin, not ST:V time travel stories that never happened. I’ve always been fond of good comic writing and it tends to shine through the most without the big fight scenes (Alan Moore’s Watchmen, Neil Gaimain’s Miracleman).
I think it’s real shame that YJ has ended, it has constantly maintained a high standard and it will be sorely missed from my monthly collection. The thing I regret most about not being able to read this book anymore is not seeing what happens to Greta, I would love to read about how she adjusts to being alive again.
“You are a strange and offputting young man”
Thanks to the nod to us fellow Buffy fans PAD. It made a great issue just THAT much better.
The resolution to Captain Marvel didn’t really suprise me — aside from the Captain himself still being a loon. But Entropy’s maturation into Eternity was pretty much what I expected when the issue began. It seemed inevitable.
I’m curious to see where the book goes from here, but this one didn’t knock me flat like some of the other issues. I plan to read them all in a bunch in a few weeks — that should give me some time to reevaluate.
As for Young Justice, I’m really going to miss it. I just started picking it up again in the last 10 or 12 issues, after dropping it after the first handful (and checking in every so often). Nauck’s art has matured so much during the run — he’s really come a long way. And to my surprise, I had a lot more emotionally invested in the characters than I thought I had.
Although I still don’t quite understand who the heck Slo-Bo was, I’m glad you gave him a good ending. I never expected to like him (considering I detest Lobo), but he became my favorite YJ character.
Great final issue, PAD.
Rob
Haven’t read CM (or Supergirl, for that matter) yet, but I really enjoyed YJ. It was a good, solid ending for the series. I’m really sad to see this book go, it was consistently one of my favorites every month. I’ll make sure and say as much to Todd Nauck when he’s in town for a comic shop signing later this month… But I’m sure gonna miss this book, PAD! Thanks for all the great stories!
Roland
I too have pretty much nothing but praise for the final issue of YJ. Great job on the series, my biggest problem was the DC in Demand page saying “The spirit of YJ lives on” about the new Teen Titans. I don’t know, I may be the only one but Geoff doesn’t really captivate me often, especially not in a funny way. I am collecting Flash because I have been for years and really alot of the issues I could take or leave that he hass written. Some of them are good, some of them are bad, and some are just me panning through the pages.
So while I’ll pick up teen titans, see how it is, and then decide (it may be a good comic). I don’t think the same spirit wil be captured in that series. That is what we are losing with the end of young justice. That is what PAD and TAN brought to the series. That is what I am grateful for.
Thanks guys.
David, I got what the story was about. But as I mentioned in my comment here yesterday, and in my review posted on my site. How you started the issue was just too distracting, and it left you with that nagging feeling that you missed something. We all know the destruction of the universe wasn’t central to the story (as if right!) but that’s how it left us feeling all the same.
I’ve enjoyed the series up until now, and I enjoy your writing. I think you are an incredibly talented writer and I’ve said so many times. Just didn’t like this issue. 😉
Well, finally got a chance to read CM #6 this morning.
wow. And what a great way to show the “becoming your father” issue.
Thumbs up again.
Saw Criss Cross over the week-end at MegaCon and i was sad to hear from him that #5 was his last issue 🙁
Don’t read Captain Marvel. I tried with # 1 of Volume 4, but I just couldn’t get into it.
As for Young Justice, I am also one of the legions of fans who are sad to see this great comic go. I started with “World without Young Justice” (still wondering if Empress feels any remorse about killing Jason Todd. I know it wasn’t really her, but still, she remembers some of it) and own every issue now except for # 35 (Can’t find that thing ANYWHERE!!). I also hope you can return with Young Justice # 56. I’m really sorry for all the shafting you keep getting. Uh, the end.
I’ll miss YJ 🙁 and if DC was smart they’d get Todd Nauck on another book as fast as possible.
I always like happy endings though, thank you for that Peter.
Geoff Johns is one of my favorite writers but I just can’t get excited by a toon inspired Teen Titans. Cancelling YJ for that was just a shame (of course I said the same about Supergirl to no avail).
CM6: Looks like destroying the universe distracts a lot of people. The circular effect was cool – but it was the fact that it was so ABSOLUTELY circular that cracked me up.
Of course, if you aren’t content when you look up at Daddy, this arc ain’t gonna give ya any comfort.
Originally posted by Bill: “I thought CM #6 was just awful. I’ve loved the series since it started, but this issue just sucked. It reminded me why I stay away from cosmic books – an ending where characters stand around talking, and every horrible world destroying action is undone in one pannel.”
Bill Jemas??? What the hëll are you doing here? Just take the “You Decide” loss like a man.
Loved the issue, Peter.
– Markisan
Sad but funny story:
I had to quit buying comics monthly last year but managed to pick up a ton of recent back issues cheap at the Mega-Con this past weekend. Part of my haul was YJ 47-53. So here I am reading Issue 49 on the same day that YJ’s final issue hits the stands and the opening pages of 49 talks about how Superboy, Impulse and Ray got canceled. And how sad it is when something gets canceled that you look forward too so much. I got the irony but didn’t think to much of it till the middle of the issue where there’s a….Ad for the premier of Firefly. From the Creator of BTVS.
Now I’m really depressed.
I also managed to pick up Supergirl 72-79, by the way, and am looking forward to reading them.
Hey Mr. PAD,
I really like the new Captain Marvel direction. I enjoyed the last series but I have to admit I was getting tired of some of the jokes with Rick, Marlo, etc. I like the new drama and think you have done an excellent job. The art was beautiful as well.
I keep suggesting you for the Avengers position! It would just be more controversy at Marvel and they loved that anyways!
Thanks!
Look everyone, any of you that frequent the Young Justice area of the DC Comics Message boards have heard me shoting this from the rooftops before. Don’t buy Teen Titans! I know you said yourself Peter that fans just say it and then don’t follow through. Well for better or for worse I am, and I am trying to take as many people with me as I can. I’ve posted at various places a plea to boycott, and my boyfriend and I are starting a website as a rallying center to keep YJ alive, and see Teen Titans demise. I don’t know if you or other fans of Young Justice are bitter or angry over the callous way this all occured, but I know I am. Angry enough to want to do something. I’ll be sending any potential Teen Titan buyers I can to your new projects, and steering as many undecided fans away from Teen Titans as possible. In 27 years collecting comics I’ve never been so angry about a cancellation, or indeed seen a more shallow reason for one then this. Then to add insult to injury as well with Supergirl. Enough is enough, and I hope a lot of other fans feel the same way, enough to see Teen Titans sink fast!
Captain Marvel #6 left me a little nonplussed. The one month gaps between stories seemed to spare us from those filler tales that usually pad out these kind of large-scale, Jim Starlin-esque conflicts. (ex: Captain America & the Avengers intervene, etc.) Heck, this kind of storyline served as the basis for the first two years of Quasar. The temporal elisions made for a very compelling read over these past few months.
The only downside is that I don’t know what to make of the resolution. Really, once you’ve destroyed & recreated the universe, where do you go from here? With the final panel showing Marvel in Eternity/Entropy’s eye, it looks like the answer is “do it again”, only this time, we’ll have those filler stories that were excised on the first go-around. (Example: next issue’s guest shot with Thor.)
What kind of impact will this ultimately have? Will this make Rick more determined to sever his bond from Marvel, more determined to kill Marvel, or just resigned to the feeling that he is powerless from stopping these events from happening again?
If I pulled anything from the setup of the first six issues, it’s that Marvel has now become irredeemable as a hero figure, and from here on in, all bet’s are off. If that means that the stories from here on in are unpredictable, then that’s a good thing.
I couldn’t quite tell from the lettercol, but is Ivan Reis filling in for issue #9, or is he going to be the new penciller for the series? (Pardon me if that’s already been answered on this page. I don’t like to read the other reviews before I’ve articulated my own.)
If so, then it’s a darn good choice, considering how well he did on the recent issue of “The Avengers.” I just hope that the series doesn’t lose that “uninked” look that has helped define the series’ second incarnation.
I did buy the last issue of YJ, but since I didn’t buy any of the other issues, I don’t have much to say about the matter.
Kudos to both Todd Nauck and Chriscross for staying on all these years. Chriscross’ work will be particularly missed. And kudos to you too, PAD.
Just gotta tell you folks, don’t pay any attention to Knick. Us on the DC’s Young Justice message boards are trying not to. Trust me, it’ll be a lot better that way.
After reading CM #6, I said to myself, “I have already read this… in supergirl”.
I did like YJ 55 tho.
Peter:
I have rarely, if ever, seen a series wrapped up as well as YOUNG JUSTICE.
Excellent job with Secret, Slo-Bo, Empress, Arrowette, giving them all endings (…or “endings of sorts”), as we may or may not be seeing them again.
In the interests of keeping this a “Spoiler-Free Zone”, I’ll say no more — but I COULD SAY SO MUCH MORE, and all of it great!
I’ll miss my regular visits with YJ, you, Todd, and Larry. Imagine, none of you ever left this book, yet the book — still selling respectably, I might point out — left you! Sad.
Thanks for providing a place for a former DC Letterhack to express his thanks.
Joe Torcivia.
I liked both, but reading both in one sitting makes me much more aware of these Fatherhood/childhood issues you seem to be working out. In YJ we see children caring for their parents (and parents-who-are-children caring for their children-who-are-parents), and in CM we see children in conflict with their parents.
You’re clearly going through some sh*t here, thanks for letting us watch.
Well, place my vote into the “CM #6 sucked” category. There are a couple of reasons, but I’ll just point out a few: 1. I don’t like Genis anymore. He is a bášŧárdš. He’s not even a likeable bášŧárd. I liked him so much more in the previous series. How can he possibly be redeemed from everything he has done? He’s callously murdered people for goodness sake! I just want Rick to get out of the Microverse and hope that Genis dies shortly. By the way, since when does the Living Tribunal stand by and let Eternity get destroyed? I don’t think so. And then we find out that Entropy is a moron. Great, we have no hero and a retarted villain who doesn’t no what to do when he wins. That just sucks. I know you can do better Mr. David. I’m going to stick with the book for a few more issues, but its beginning to become a disappointment each time. Thanks for listening to the criticism.
Have you ever read any articles on computer-chess theory?
Back in the old days, the artificial-chessmaster often employed a recursive decision engine. The computer would invoke a procedure that would make a move, then it would ponder what would happen for every possible move the opponent could make.
It would then recursively re-invoke itself with each possible retaliatory move until it had decided that a particular set of moves could lead to victory.
After reading CM#6, I’m wondering if the events depicted in the last several issues have happened at all or if Genis is still at the bottom of that canyon imagining never-ending “what-if” permutations until he reaches a path that leaves him a hero.
Through their psi-rapport, Rick may be along for the ride…
Great issue! Looking forward to #7! ( Kinda nice to still see a letters page too! )
CM #6 :
Rick:”I spoke to you for months and you didn’t reply! you acted as if i didnt matter! you supposedly know everthing, but clearly dont give a dámņ abt anything! U do things for no discernible reason, and you destroy life at whim!”
Rick: “Yet I’m supposed to believe U care? What kind of sick Bášŧárd are U?”
Cap Marvel:”i believe the technical term is God”
hmmm that few lines got me looking forward for the next few issues … ?
One word-AWESOME! It was exactly what it needed to be, different, fresh, new. If this type of story telling doesn’t get more sales, nothing will. Well, alomost nothing. Hmm, maybe a HUGE marketing budget, a free ish, some TV adds………
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Loved them both. I’m gonna miss Young Justice, so thanks for the memories!
oh well at least i got 1 more months of supergirl and hopefully more than that of captain marvel!
-erick
Haven’t had the time to read Cap.Marvel yet… but the first thing i did when i got home was reading YJ.
Great Joooooorb again, Peter.
I hate to see this book go. Specially since i have this very weird feeling that Teen Titans will die really quick. Which means that a great book was cancelled for NOTHING.
Can’t wait to read Spyboy 13.1 and if you are still planned for it, TMNT!
I got Young Justice #55 in the mail today. I thought it was great. Everything Robin said really captured the essence of the series. This was my favorite comic book series. I’ve been reading this series since issue #1. I’m going to miss it, even if the characters are just being shifted into a new series.
A really sweet ending to YJ. Many pleasant surprises. Nice jab at crossovers again with the Millenium Chicken. 🙂
As for CAPTAIN MARVEL, I sure wasn’t expecting THAT kind of ending! Looks like the end of the universe still didn’t fix Marv’s “dámņëd if I do or don’t” dilemmas… 🙂
KET
YJ was another great issue…I’m so sorry to see this book go. You and Todd and the rest did such great work month in, month out. Ugh, I’m so upset the book’s been cancelled. Oh well, though…nothing more to do about that. But I really did love the book, and I really will miss it.
YJ: Darn-nation. I was angry that the book was being cancelled before, but after an amazing issue like this, I’m furious. I’m very glad that Slo-Bo lives on (sorta), and that Greta has a happy ending (for now), but dad-blast-it, I want more! I want to see where Cissie goes from here, now that her Mom doesn’t want her to be Arrowette. I want to see Anita raise her parents. I want to see what happens to these guys next, and I’m not gonna. In fact, I fear very much that the characters who aren’t moving on to Titans will get written out with a bullet in the Graduation Day mini.
Anyway, loved it, loved it, loved it. Loved Slo-Bo’s talk with Anita, loved Darkseid not jobbing for once, loved Robin, or rather Tim, saving Greta with love, loved the final cameo by YJ 1M. (But where were Wonder Girl, Arrowette, Secret, and Empress One Million?)
CM: Not the ending I expected, but a good ending nonetheless. Having the battle with Eternity take place off-panel was a risk, but it worked. The “Big Bang” bit was a nice touch, as was history repeating itself (poor Rick). Looking forward to next ish very much. Wish I could say the same about YJ.
Although I came into Young Justice late, I’ve read the entire series many times. This was such a great mag, and a really great last episode for them. I’m so happy for Greta, but I can only think, poor Slobo. If he thought the original three were bad. . .
Peter, unfortunately I didn’t really like Captain Marvel #6. That was a great surprise to me because I’ve loved the series otherwise. It seemed a little rushed to me and also I couldn’t escape the feeling that the story started in the middle. At the end of last issue Genis had agreed to help Entropy destory Eternity. Then the very first panel of this issue we find out they did it. I know that part of the story wasn’t of great importance to the overall message, but it still left me with a nagging feeling that I couldn’t ignore. Sorry.
Remember, you asked… I collected comics from the mid 70s till around 91. Oh I picked up an issue here or there but basically I stopped reading them for about 9 years. I bought Captain Marvel as a part of my micronauts collecting. Peter, just let me say that I completely loved the previous version of Captain Marvel. It was a fun book, well written, well drawn book that didn’t take itself dead serious. Free of the lame gimmicks that drove me away from the hobby. Your Captain Marvel got me into the comic shop again and I started buying again. Now I pay like 25 books a month and Captain Marvel was the first book I read. (Thats been replaced by Powers but thats neither here or there.) Well, I’ve made it no secret that I haven’t been happy with this volume. However I stuck with it. Hoping for some improvement. I can see with issue six that this is a lost cause. God the book sucked. In the past six issues, there was exactly one page I enjoyed (the one where Rick Jones talked about what they had to eat in the cave) The rest was an exercise in self abuse. Issue six, well, was the worse. About a year ago, my Dad passed away and I spent many hours talking to my near suicidal mother to keep her grounded. THAT was more enjoyable than issue six. It suck life away from me to read it, and the end just hammered it home. Made the last six null and void. If your goal was to punish the fans of your previous work, congrads, you suceeded beyond your wildest dreams.
Still utterly depressed about this being the final issue of YJ. I’m going to miss the whole YJ gang, but most of all your portrayal of Tim as Robin. You always had that dead on… Tim’s dialogue with Greta at the end was a perfect example. One character that I find myself missing already is Slo-bo. I’m impressed with the depth you gave him throughout his existence.
I’ve already mentioned this to you before, but you’ve successfully lured me into Captain Marvel. Issue six is fantastic. I’m half-expecting Rick to go insane from dealing with Marv going re-insane. I also REALLY love the fact that while this six-issue story arc lasted months and months chronologically, we end up right back where we started. Nifty, I say!
Captain Marvel….I continue to be happily amazed at where this book continues to move. I still love the work of volume 3 for what it is, but this direction has it’s own wonderfully entertaining and engaging parallels.
YJ….that just blows. No more. 🙁
Sorry, I’m another naysayer on CM #6 — and I posted my love for one
through five.
I realize you were in a bind, Mr. David. You had to have a tie-off point in #6 in case the plug got pulled then. But….
CM #6 started by throwing out ALL the groundwork laid by the prior issues. How was Rick going to get out of the Microverse to confront Genis? How was he going to stop Genis? Was Eiphany friend or foe?
I was looking forward to those answers the way I looked forward to “Judas Contract” in the Titans, to “The Great Darkness Saga” in Legion, to each chapter of Spidey vs. Morlun when JMS took over Amazing Spider-Man.
I’ll stick with CM a while. I suspect you’ve got a plan to start the avalanche rolling again.
But this issue…didn’t satisfy.
CM #6 was really pretty enjoyable. The beginning did kind of leave me with a “wait, did I miss the last issue?” feeling, but I think the real conflict wasn’t the phenominal cosmic conflict, but the “what next?” aftermath, which was handled very well. I’m glad there’ll be an issue #7, because if this had been the last issue, it would have been frustrating…
speaking of last issues, YJ was a lot of fun as well, although I found myself heaving great sighs as I was reading it, wondering (much like I did with the last issue of Hulk) just how great the rest of the series would have been had it not been cut of just so. More Cass and Kon, more Robin/Secret, more Anita and her parents, more Cissie and her mom, more everything. I felt like we could have had several more issues even after Greta went over to the “Doug Side,” but such is life…
Thanks for the books, Peter…
I thought CM #6 was just awful. I’ve loved the series since it started, but this issue just sucked. It reminded me why I stay away from cosmic books – an ending where characters stand around talking, and every horrible world destroying action is undone in one pannel.
Come on you guys!!!
PAD has been doing this with the last three or four issues. He’s allowing (at least this is my take on it) for a month of comic time to take place in between issues. So we don’t see the battle against Infinity, just like we didn’t see Rick’s Rock star moments and we didn’t see much of Marv as Kree Soldier.
This issue was great.
The last half of the ish, I was sitting there going, “Well this seems kinda like a cop out. I mean, Marv is just going to come back and all is forgiven? All that stuff never happened because Infinity remakes the universe and Marv is back to …oh…hehe… *turns to last page*
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA”
I swear Peter. I was in Panda Express and The nice Chinese lady that gives me extra Orange Chicken was looking at me funny because I was laughing out loud.
You had me, man. Nice work on that.
Best,
Sean
Haven’t read either yet, but I seriously still want to kick whoever cancelled YJ in the butt!
PAD,thanks for the great book. I’ll tell Todd when I get to meet him in 2 weeks(yay!).
Col
CM6: I think the folks who didn’t like the first half of the book are complaining that when Entropy takes over the Universe it’ll suck because there won’t be enough ACTION. 🙂 I got a real kick out of everything from that point on – but what the hëll is Rick gonna do NOW?
I haven’t read the Young Justice series in a while, but still keep up with Captain Marvel. I found CM #6 to be somewhat of a let down I guess. Grade: C. Ah well, I do look forward to future issues though (and hopefully w/ Marlo returning and more Rick and less Marv!).
ps – Also, the coloring on the book is really starting to annoy me!
The thing that nay-sayers about CM #6 don’t get is exactly what I thought some wouldn’t: What the story arc was about.
I spelled it out right in the first two issues. The first issue Rick says, “Now you can’t really argue with vague comments and belief in an “Uber-father-knows-best” philosophy.” In issue 2, he says, “Y’know, I read somewhere that most of American fiction has, as its main theme, a son or daughter seeking the approval of his or her father or father figure.”
The theme was reiterated in every issue: Fathers and sons. A big punch out struggle-for-the-universe issue, believe it or not, simply wouldn’t have been interesting. It’s the exact kind of cosmic BS that puts most people to sleep…and is also EXACTLY what everyone was expecting, which is why I didn’t do it. You’ve seen it a million times. Why make it a million and one?
The *theme* wasn’t about destroying the universe. It was about the struggle for power between child and adult, the eventual breaking away from the adult by the child, but–invariably–the tendency to wind up being either just like our parents, or more like them than we’d care to admit.
The important thing wasn’t that Entropy destroyed the universe, i.e., his father. It’s that he wound up *becoming exactly what his father was.* *That* was what the climax of the story was. I didn’t need to show the universe being destroyed or all the mechanics of it involved. So I didn’t show it.
PAD
I actually enjoyed the fact that the big cosmic battle didn’t take place on-page. But the issue did feel a little rushed. Also, where’s Cris Cross??
I loved YJ, though. I’m so bummed it’s been cancelled. BAH.
I agree with the naysayers. The tragedy is that it couldn’t hold a candle to the greatness of #1-5. I even had reservations about the art, but that was the only surprisingly good thing about it. The move to skip a month forward was a very poor one. People complain about comics being inaccessible to new readers, but this was practically inaccessible to current ones because there was hardly a bridge from issue #5! I mean, this is what I hate about Mark Millar comics, that the characters all talk about action, but you don’t see it. His characters are all like “Did you see Wolverine hit Cyclops? That was so cool,” but what we actually see are talking heads. Same thing here. It’s a bad move.
And there was no resolution. Everything was destroyed, everything was fixed, and then we get forced deja vu. It felt like “oh, it was all a dream”, Genis gets another chance to use his omniscence. Except he screws it up again, and this time, instead of getting a Christmas Carol-type ending, it just feels like “ok, he went insane before, he’s going insane again. We’ve seen this.” It felt rehashed.
Sorry PAD, I’ll checked out #7, but don’t let us down like this again
I haven’t read CM yet, but I think the last issue of YJ was a great farewell. As others said, Robin pretty much summed up the series in his effort to save Secret (so nice that she got to be a real girl). I think when it comes to the home YJ characters like Cissie, Anita, Secret & Slobo, I’ll miss them, but I’d be comfortable to never see them again. At this point, it’s like the end of a TV series. I can think about where their lives will take them, even though no one will tell the story. I’d prefer that to one of them being a human sacrifice in an Outsiders storyline or something.
I especially liked the moment w/ Impulse and Ray.
I don’t generally read Captain Marvel so it slipped beneath my radar, but Young Justice is a constant favorite. I’m sad to see it go but at least there was a sense of resolution within the team.
I get my stuff from Westfield, and I just got the shipment with the previous two weeks’ worth of stuff yesterday, which means two weeks more before I can comment. But if either of these is half as good as the copy of Supergirl #79 that was in that shipment, I’ll be dámņëd happy. What an amazing issue.
I liked but didn’t love CM 6. I was a bit surprised that the end of everything occured offscreen, but I get that – it’s a been there, done that kind of thing. I liked the strange conversation at the end of everything. But then we we get a Big Bang – OW! – and suddenly everything is as it was. Shouldn’t we have started over from scratch?
And then we get the confusing ending. Does this mean that the stuff with the Kree and with Punisher didn’t happen? Or was all of that just in Genis’ head.
So after five great issues, we get one that is a bit off, and leaves me confused. Still, I loved your take on Thor and cannot wait to see how he copes with Genis the Mad Half-Titan. (Hey, is Thanos in the wings somewhere?)
Matthew asked: “Also, where’s Cris Cross??”
He’s moved on. Rumor has it that he’ll soon be the new regular penciller on JLA.
KET
CM #6 was a bit heady for me, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. If it were the last issue, I’d say it was the šhìŧŧëšŧ, crappest ending to a series I’ve ever read, but because it doesn’t end there, it’s a great cliffhanger. Not much of a distinction, but that ending (hëll, the entire issue, really) doesn’t offer much suggestion that something horrible will happen if Rick fails to quell Marv. I mean, the universe was already destroyed, and the consequences of that proved to be rather short-lived. What’s the worst that could happen if it was destroyed again? It leaves a lot of questions that I would be unhappy were they not to be answered, but I’ll take it as a cliffhanger. I’m practiced at waiting a month for the answer to the big question.
As for YJ… *sigh*… I loved this series so much. When I bought the last issue, my sister actually asked me, “Are you all right?” I responded with, “I’m as not-all right as one can be about the cancellation of a comic book.” I (and she) then realized just how not-all right one can be about the cancellation of a comic book, and amended it with, “I’m as not-all right as I was when Sci-Fi Channel canned I-Man.” This seemed to satisfy her. Now that I’m alone, I weep.
Well, not really. But this is crap. I’ve been saying as much over on the DCMBs.
The issue itself? It was a good solid ending. If the Titans fails (and for the first time in my life, I hope a series fails — there’s something inherently wrong about Tim Drake as a Titan), I really want to see you and (if at all possible) TAN take up the reigns again and just come right back at us with YJ #56.
Meanwhile, I intend to pick up TMNT to see what you do with it. I love the concept, but I hope your version resembles more closely the Archie version than any other (I can’t find the dámņ things anywhere, since it was labelled a “Kiddie” book! If anyone knows where I can find issues of it, e-mail me!).
I thought CM # 6 was fantastic, but then I do have a thing for circular stories. Well circular stories that ‘acidentaly’ end as they begin, not ST:V time travel stories that never happened. I’ve always been fond of good comic writing and it tends to shine through the most without the big fight scenes (Alan Moore’s Watchmen, Neil Gaimain’s Miracleman).
I think it’s real shame that YJ has ended, it has constantly maintained a high standard and it will be sorely missed from my monthly collection. The thing I regret most about not being able to read this book anymore is not seeing what happens to Greta, I would love to read about how she adjusts to being alive again.
“You are a strange and offputting young man”
Thanks to the nod to us fellow Buffy fans PAD. It made a great issue just THAT much better.
The resolution to Captain Marvel didn’t really suprise me — aside from the Captain himself still being a loon. But Entropy’s maturation into Eternity was pretty much what I expected when the issue began. It seemed inevitable.
I’m curious to see where the book goes from here, but this one didn’t knock me flat like some of the other issues. I plan to read them all in a bunch in a few weeks — that should give me some time to reevaluate.
As for Young Justice, I’m really going to miss it. I just started picking it up again in the last 10 or 12 issues, after dropping it after the first handful (and checking in every so often). Nauck’s art has matured so much during the run — he’s really come a long way. And to my surprise, I had a lot more emotionally invested in the characters than I thought I had.
Although I still don’t quite understand who the heck Slo-Bo was, I’m glad you gave him a good ending. I never expected to like him (considering I detest Lobo), but he became my favorite YJ character.
Great final issue, PAD.
Rob
Haven’t read CM (or Supergirl, for that matter) yet, but I really enjoyed YJ. It was a good, solid ending for the series. I’m really sad to see this book go, it was consistently one of my favorites every month. I’ll make sure and say as much to Todd Nauck when he’s in town for a comic shop signing later this month… But I’m sure gonna miss this book, PAD! Thanks for all the great stories!
Roland
I too have pretty much nothing but praise for the final issue of YJ. Great job on the series, my biggest problem was the DC in Demand page saying “The spirit of YJ lives on” about the new Teen Titans. I don’t know, I may be the only one but Geoff doesn’t really captivate me often, especially not in a funny way. I am collecting Flash because I have been for years and really alot of the issues I could take or leave that he hass written. Some of them are good, some of them are bad, and some are just me panning through the pages.
So while I’ll pick up teen titans, see how it is, and then decide (it may be a good comic). I don’t think the same spirit wil be captured in that series. That is what we are losing with the end of young justice. That is what PAD and TAN brought to the series. That is what I am grateful for.
Thanks guys.
David, I got what the story was about. But as I mentioned in my comment here yesterday, and in my review posted on my site. How you started the issue was just too distracting, and it left you with that nagging feeling that you missed something. We all know the destruction of the universe wasn’t central to the story (as if right!) but that’s how it left us feeling all the same.
I’ve enjoyed the series up until now, and I enjoy your writing. I think you are an incredibly talented writer and I’ve said so many times. Just didn’t like this issue. 😉
Well, finally got a chance to read CM #6 this morning.
wow. And what a great way to show the “becoming your father” issue.
Thumbs up again.
Saw Criss Cross over the week-end at MegaCon and i was sad to hear from him that #5 was his last issue 🙁
Don’t read Captain Marvel. I tried with # 1 of Volume 4, but I just couldn’t get into it.
As for Young Justice, I am also one of the legions of fans who are sad to see this great comic go. I started with “World without Young Justice” (still wondering if Empress feels any remorse about killing Jason Todd. I know it wasn’t really her, but still, she remembers some of it) and own every issue now except for # 35 (Can’t find that thing ANYWHERE!!). I also hope you can return with Young Justice # 56. I’m really sorry for all the shafting you keep getting. Uh, the end.
I’ll miss YJ 🙁 and if DC was smart they’d get Todd Nauck on another book as fast as possible.
I always like happy endings though, thank you for that Peter.
Geoff Johns is one of my favorite writers but I just can’t get excited by a toon inspired Teen Titans. Cancelling YJ for that was just a shame (of course I said the same about Supergirl to no avail).
CM6: Looks like destroying the universe distracts a lot of people. The circular effect was cool – but it was the fact that it was so ABSOLUTELY circular that cracked me up.
Of course, if you aren’t content when you look up at Daddy, this arc ain’t gonna give ya any comfort.
Originally posted by Bill: “I thought CM #6 was just awful. I’ve loved the series since it started, but this issue just sucked. It reminded me why I stay away from cosmic books – an ending where characters stand around talking, and every horrible world destroying action is undone in one pannel.”
Bill Jemas??? What the hëll are you doing here? Just take the “You Decide” loss like a man.
Loved the issue, Peter.
– Markisan
Sad but funny story:
I had to quit buying comics monthly last year but managed to pick up a ton of recent back issues cheap at the Mega-Con this past weekend. Part of my haul was YJ 47-53. So here I am reading Issue 49 on the same day that YJ’s final issue hits the stands and the opening pages of 49 talks about how Superboy, Impulse and Ray got canceled. And how sad it is when something gets canceled that you look forward too so much. I got the irony but didn’t think to much of it till the middle of the issue where there’s a….Ad for the premier of Firefly. From the Creator of BTVS.
Now I’m really depressed.
I also managed to pick up Supergirl 72-79, by the way, and am looking forward to reading them.
Hey Mr. PAD,
I really like the new Captain Marvel direction. I enjoyed the last series but I have to admit I was getting tired of some of the jokes with Rick, Marlo, etc. I like the new drama and think you have done an excellent job. The art was beautiful as well.
I keep suggesting you for the Avengers position! It would just be more controversy at Marvel and they loved that anyways!
Thanks!
Look everyone, any of you that frequent the Young Justice area of the DC Comics Message boards have heard me shoting this from the rooftops before. Don’t buy Teen Titans! I know you said yourself Peter that fans just say it and then don’t follow through. Well for better or for worse I am, and I am trying to take as many people with me as I can. I’ve posted at various places a plea to boycott, and my boyfriend and I are starting a website as a rallying center to keep YJ alive, and see Teen Titans demise. I don’t know if you or other fans of Young Justice are bitter or angry over the callous way this all occured, but I know I am. Angry enough to want to do something. I’ll be sending any potential Teen Titan buyers I can to your new projects, and steering as many undecided fans away from Teen Titans as possible. In 27 years collecting comics I’ve never been so angry about a cancellation, or indeed seen a more shallow reason for one then this. Then to add insult to injury as well with Supergirl. Enough is enough, and I hope a lot of other fans feel the same way, enough to see Teen Titans sink fast!
Captain Marvel #6 left me a little nonplussed. The one month gaps between stories seemed to spare us from those filler tales that usually pad out these kind of large-scale, Jim Starlin-esque conflicts. (ex: Captain America & the Avengers intervene, etc.) Heck, this kind of storyline served as the basis for the first two years of Quasar. The temporal elisions made for a very compelling read over these past few months.
The only downside is that I don’t know what to make of the resolution. Really, once you’ve destroyed & recreated the universe, where do you go from here? With the final panel showing Marvel in Eternity/Entropy’s eye, it looks like the answer is “do it again”, only this time, we’ll have those filler stories that were excised on the first go-around. (Example: next issue’s guest shot with Thor.)
What kind of impact will this ultimately have? Will this make Rick more determined to sever his bond from Marvel, more determined to kill Marvel, or just resigned to the feeling that he is powerless from stopping these events from happening again?
If I pulled anything from the setup of the first six issues, it’s that Marvel has now become irredeemable as a hero figure, and from here on in, all bet’s are off. If that means that the stories from here on in are unpredictable, then that’s a good thing.
I couldn’t quite tell from the lettercol, but is Ivan Reis filling in for issue #9, or is he going to be the new penciller for the series? (Pardon me if that’s already been answered on this page. I don’t like to read the other reviews before I’ve articulated my own.)
If so, then it’s a darn good choice, considering how well he did on the recent issue of “The Avengers.” I just hope that the series doesn’t lose that “uninked” look that has helped define the series’ second incarnation.
I did buy the last issue of YJ, but since I didn’t buy any of the other issues, I don’t have much to say about the matter.
Kudos to both Todd Nauck and Chriscross for staying on all these years. Chriscross’ work will be particularly missed. And kudos to you too, PAD.
Just gotta tell you folks, don’t pay any attention to Knick. Us on the DC’s Young Justice message boards are trying not to. Trust me, it’ll be a lot better that way.
After reading CM #6, I said to myself, “I have already read this… in supergirl”.
I did like YJ 55 tho.
Peter:
I have rarely, if ever, seen a series wrapped up as well as YOUNG JUSTICE.
Excellent job with Secret, Slo-Bo, Empress, Arrowette, giving them all endings (…or “endings of sorts”), as we may or may not be seeing them again.
In the interests of keeping this a “Spoiler-Free Zone”, I’ll say no more — but I COULD SAY SO MUCH MORE, and all of it great!
I’ll miss my regular visits with YJ, you, Todd, and Larry. Imagine, none of you ever left this book, yet the book — still selling respectably, I might point out — left you! Sad.
Thanks for providing a place for a former DC Letterhack to express his thanks.
Joe Torcivia.
I liked both, but reading both in one sitting makes me much more aware of these Fatherhood/childhood issues you seem to be working out. In YJ we see children caring for their parents (and parents-who-are-children caring for their children-who-are-parents), and in CM we see children in conflict with their parents.
You’re clearly going through some sh*t here, thanks for letting us watch.
Well, place my vote into the “CM #6 sucked” category. There are a couple of reasons, but I’ll just point out a few: 1. I don’t like Genis anymore. He is a bášŧárdš. He’s not even a likeable bášŧárd. I liked him so much more in the previous series. How can he possibly be redeemed from everything he has done? He’s callously murdered people for goodness sake! I just want Rick to get out of the Microverse and hope that Genis dies shortly. By the way, since when does the Living Tribunal stand by and let Eternity get destroyed? I don’t think so. And then we find out that Entropy is a moron. Great, we have no hero and a retarted villain who doesn’t no what to do when he wins. That just sucks. I know you can do better Mr. David. I’m going to stick with the book for a few more issues, but its beginning to become a disappointment each time. Thanks for listening to the criticism.
Have you ever read any articles on computer-chess theory?
Back in the old days, the artificial-chessmaster often employed a recursive decision engine. The computer would invoke a procedure that would make a move, then it would ponder what would happen for every possible move the opponent could make.
It would then recursively re-invoke itself with each possible retaliatory move until it had decided that a particular set of moves could lead to victory.
After reading CM#6, I’m wondering if the events depicted in the last several issues have happened at all or if Genis is still at the bottom of that canyon imagining never-ending “what-if” permutations until he reaches a path that leaves him a hero.
Through their psi-rapport, Rick may be along for the ride…
Great issue! Looking forward to #7! ( Kinda nice to still see a letters page too! )
CM #6 :
Rick:”I spoke to you for months and you didn’t reply! you acted as if i didnt matter! you supposedly know everthing, but clearly dont give a dámņ abt anything! U do things for no discernible reason, and you destroy life at whim!”
Rick: “Yet I’m supposed to believe U care? What kind of sick Bášŧárd are U?”
Cap Marvel:”i believe the technical term is God”
hmmm that few lines got me looking forward for the next few issues … ?
One word-AWESOME! It was exactly what it needed to be, different, fresh, new. If this type of story telling doesn’t get more sales, nothing will. Well, alomost nothing. Hmm, maybe a HUGE marketing budget, a free ish, some TV adds………